DRUG ADDICTION, ORIGINS AND INTERNATIONAL COMBAT. PART I. HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS AGAINST DRUGS

This article deals with one of the most important tasks of modernity i.e. drug addiction and its antisocial manifestation. The article includes not only systemic analysis of the experience of combating drug addiction in the USSR, in Armenia, as well as in Moscow and Yerevan based on the examples of the research on criminal cases and drug addicts made in 1976–1979 and 1982–1989, as well as the contemporary global practice in drug combating, taking into consideration the recent analysis of the scientific literature on the subject.

The author substantiates the urgency of the chosen topic. The international practice of combating drug addiction and illegal turnover of drugs is considered.

Special attention is paid to the close cooperation between science and practice issues in the domain of activity of the relevant bodies for fortifying introduction of scientific achievements in combating drug addiction.